copyright

[clinton]

Hi there,
  konakart is distributed under the terms of the Lesser GPL, which enables other companies to customise konakart and on-sell it (thankyou).

What's confusing me is the code under the konakart/custom/ directory, which contains a copyright notice:

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// (c) 2006 DS Data Systems UK Ltd, All rights reserved.
//
// DS Data Systems and KonaKart and their respective logos, are
// trademarks of DS Data Systems UK Ltd. All rights reserved.
//
// The information in this document is free software; you can redistribute
// it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
// License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
// version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
//
// This software is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
// but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
// MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
// Lesser General Public License for more details.


Can I have some guidance on how developers are meant to deal with this copyright notice, given we are potentially modifying these source files to suit our own purposes?  Eg: the copyright claims "no warranty" but a commerical offering would have a warranty...

I'm a developer not a lawyer. One possible solution would be to remove the above copyright from the custom source code, on the understanding the code is there to be modified...

-- Clinton

[julie]

Hi Clinton,

I'm also a developer and not a lawyer 

You can read all about the GNU LGPL here: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html . The copyright notice is standard practice for distributing software under this license: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html .